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President Bolsonaro says green NGOs started the fires to make him look bad.

Please tell me that we know well enough by now who we should believe. Please tell me that we trust and respect Indigenous peoples enough to know that they have every reason to be telling the truth and Bolsonaro has every reason to lie.

As an international community, we need to call for accountability. Not only are sacred Indigenous lands being destroyed, but the area of the world that supplies 20% of the planet's oxygen is covered in thick smoke and burning away. This is an example of how climate change is a man-made disaster.

The fire and smoke in the Amazon is the size of one-third of the US.

how in the world was the last airbender given 6.8 times the amount of money than the amount offered to the literal lungs of the earth.

the fact that the heads of entire nations don’t care enough to offer actually valuable help is so infuriating.

When Notre Dame burned, there was an outpouring of response from the wealthy and powerful because saving one building in Paris provided them with good rapport. But destroying the Amazon? That provides wealth, it provides land, it provides the industrialization that Bolsonaro has been rallying for since he began in politics through mining and cattle farms. The active deforestation happening in the Amazon is happening because of a political figure, happening because it benefits industries who don't care about their impact on the world. And what makes this so crucial to understand is that we cannot, really, save the Amazon by fighting the fire with donations and vegetarianism. We have to save the Amazon by fighting the man who created the fire and the companies who stand to gain the most by destroying it. Our ire must flow in a political vein, to the source of a man-made disaster grounded in extremism.

With all that in mind, here's some ways to aid the Amazon rain forest:

Absolutely encourage your elected officials to put environmental concerns to the forefront, at home and abroad. America isn't the paradigm of environmentalism, either—our recent actions with the EPA and the Endangered Species Act prove that we're capable of ignoring our own wildlife in favor of profit. Make it clear now that environmental issues matter to Americans.

Keep track of Bolsonaro's activities, and if you see him attempting a free trade agreement with the United States—FIGHT THAT SHIT TOOTH AND NAIL. American support will only increase the deforestation that started this.

Refuse to support the American corporations funding Bolsonaro's actions and, by extension, the current fire. Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase, Vanguard, Fidelity, TIAA—the pro-forest organization Amazon Watch has detailed all of these companies' involvement in the destruction of the rain forest.

On a related note, research the supply chains that link back to the forest, and write to the companies that support them.  Target sources its office paper from a Brazilian company closely tied to Jorge Amanajás, a politician with a history of promoting illegal deforestation. Minute Maid and Coca-Cola both benefit Nelson Marquezelli, another politician who has rallied for stripping protections from the Amazon and the indigenous people who fight to defend it. Demand that American companies develop supply chains that contribute less to devastation.

01/25/2019- Vale’s dam collapsed in Brazil releasing a river of toxic waste and mud into Brumadinho killing 270 people - 11 still missing. This is the second dam from Vale that broke in Brazil, and the worst industrial disaster in Brazil’s history. Only last week, more than a year later, 16 of Vale’s executives and CEO will start answering for their crimes - homicide and environmental crimes. There’s evidence that the dam was in critical condition which they hid from the public. Survivors are still waiting for help and compensation and surrounding rivers are still toxic. 

 08/10/2019- “Day of fire”: in August 2019 the Amazon forest suffered from an increase number of forest fires - some due to droughts that have been lasting longer and in more areas than usual, but most of the bigger fires were caused by humans. There was a day called “Day of Fire” which is said that ruralists, merchants and farmers in Pará organized a plan via WhatsApp to burn areas of protected forest reserves.  Others say (ps: the president lol) that ONGs were the ones that caused the fire to gain international help and to devalue the Brazilian government. Either way, no one was condemned and probably won’t be. The president exonerated the Inpe Director (National Institute of Space Research) for releasing scientific data that showed a significant increase in deforestation in the Amazon. The president says the data is a lie. 

 08/30/2019- Oil stains started appearing in beaches around Northeast of Brazil. The oil spill spread to almost the entire coast of Brazil (more than 800 locations) affecting beaches, mangroves, marine and plant life, food supply, tourism and people. We don’t know where the oil came from to this day. It took the government 41 days to do something about it. Residents from the Northeast did the government’s job and with their bare hands tried to clean as much oil as they can. On the long run, substances in the oil could be carcinogenic therefore raising the risk of cancer among local residents or cause mutations in their DNA.